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TassyJim Guru  Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5901 |
I have noticed that a few no-break-space characters are getting into some code listings on TBS. I also discovered that MMEdit is not always finding and squashing them. Sending a no-break-space (chr$(160)) to your 'mite is not good and it is probably what you experienced. The PRINT keyword you saw is actually a '?' for unknown character. I will try and post an update to MMEdit later today. Jim VK7JH MMedit  MMBasic Help |
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phil99 Guru Joined: 11/02/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1781 |
Don't know if it helps but that code was copied from a TeraTerm window (Alt_C) directly into TBS CODE /CODE. |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5901 |
Thanks for that Phil There are 17 'space' characters in Unicode that I know of. MMEdit can filter out most of them including no-break-space. Something strange seems to be happening when I retrieve text directly from the Windows clipboard which cause MMEdit to miss the no-break-space. I can't investigate further for a few days but I have done a patch which seems to have worked. It looks like the lines you have added to the code were given the no-break-space treatment but I don't know why it was only the select few lines in your post. Jim VK7JH MMedit  MMBasic Help |
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| phil99 Guru Joined: 11/02/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1781 |
" I don't know why it was only the select few lines " I may have a clue about that. While using the internal editor through TeraTerm, going back and forth between F2 Run and F4 Edit at one point only half of the program appeared in the editor. Hit Esc to get out and tried again, same thing. F3 List showed the whole program was still there so un / re-plugged USB and all seemed back to normal. After finishing editing, F3 then copy and paste into TBS. Perhaps I bumped a wrong key somewhere in all that adding a non-printable character or two. Next time I will paste into Notepad first then copy from that. I don't think it saves non-printable characters. |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5901 |
Not so easy. The later Notepad is Unicode so the troublesome characters will still be there. I will have to update "clipclean" and see if there is more interest than last time. Jim VK7JH MMedit  MMBasic Help |
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disco4now Guru Joined: 18/12/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 844 |
I noticed the unknown keywords in something I copied from TBS about a week ago. I remembered clipclean and have it as an item under the Action Menu. Just select all, copy to clipboard, run the Action/Clipclean and paste it back. Latest F4 Latest H7 |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5901 |
Or, Under the Program menu, run "remove non_ASCII characters". But update MMEdit first. Clipclean is missing a few of the Unicode characters that appear at times. Jim VK7JH MMedit  MMBasic Help |
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| rea23 Newbie  Joined: 16/09/2022 Location: SwitzerlandPosts: 26 |
I think it is now the elegant solution that was sought. Thanks to all who have helped. Hans ' *************************************** ' Text input with poti (TimD and phil99) ' ADC0, 1k-10k-1k gives (measured): ' 0.2790...3.0080 V over poti ' Switch down on lower R1k: 0.0130 V ' Poti works ok ==> shows A...Z ' Newname: long press on last letter ' With ABC... and cursor lines ' 5.12.2022: Just fine '**************************************** SetPin GP26, AIN 'ADC0 at pin31 ' !! inverted colors because of "false" driver for LCD!! Take RGB values Const black_= RGB(255,255,255) 'black inv. Const green_= RGB(255,127,255) 'green inv. Const yellow_= RGB(0,0,255) 'yellow inv. Dim letter As string length 1 'letter for name Dim newname As string Dim z, no, fini, t as Integer 'counter, number, flag, toggle abc$ = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" 'choice of letters dx = 12 'spacing ytxt = 60 'y-position of text dy = 20 'distance cursor to text no = 13 'number of letter/cursor position CLS black_ 'display black, iRGB of (0,0,0) Font 2, 1 text 4, ytxt, abc$,,,, green_, black_ 'ABCDE...Z text x, ytxt+dy, "^",,2,, yellow_, black_ Again: Do NewLetter = 0 : finished = 0 Box 0,0,320,240,1, yellow_ text 1, ytxt+dy, " ",,2,, yellow_, black_ text 2, ytxt+dy, " ",,2,, yellow_, black_ mvolt=Int(1000*Pin(31)) 'millivolt If (mvolt > 220) And (mvolt < 3100) Then 'Read letter if no buttons pressed diff=3008-279 'measured min/max du=diff/25 '26-1 between no=Int(mvolt/du)-1 'first # should be 1 letter=Chr$(no+64) 'A is chr$(65) text (newno-1)*dx+4, ytxt+dy, " ",,2,, yellow_, black_ '??????? text (newno-1)*dx+4, ytxt+dy, "^",,2,, yellow_, black_ Text 4, 100, "Letter is: " + letter,,2,, yellow_, black_ 'is ok, A...Z Pause 100 EndIf If mvolt < 220 Then 'lower button pressed add current letter Timer = 0 Do mvolt=Int(1000*Pin(31)) 'millivolt If Timer > 1000 Then Finished = 1 Loop While (mvolt < 220) And (finished = 0) 'wait for button release NewLetter = 1 EndIf newno=no Loop Until (NewLetter = 1) Or (Finished = 1) 'leave the loop newname = newname + letter Text 4, 16, "New name is: " + newname,,2,, yellow_, black_ If Finished = 0 Then GoTo Again Text 4, 200, "Saved name is: " + newname,,2,, yellow_, black_ End |
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vegipete Guru Joined: 29/01/2013 Location: CanadaPosts: 1082 |
A couple of years old, yet... Picking Letters Visit Vegipete's *Mite Library for cool programs. |
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| TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5901 |
RE the case of the unwelcome no-break-space characters. It appears that any code that is indented by one space, Firefox will interpret it as a no-break-space when copying to the clipboard. An indent of two spaces gets it right. Edge browser gets it right for all indents and copies it as a standard space. I haven't tried Firefox on Linux yet. Once it is in the clipboard, some programs will translate it into a space for you. TeraTerm seems to do just that when I pasted into the pico's editor. TeraTerm has lots of choices for code bases so your mileage may vary. What happens in Notepad when you save depends on the character format choice. Why MMEdit didn't find the no-break-spaces is still a mystery which I will investigate in a few days when I get back home. I haven't tried it yet but apparently, in Word, you can do a global replace space with space and hey presto - strange spaces are converted to 'normal' spaces. To quote a former Australian PM "life wasn't meant to be easy" Jim VK7JH MMedit  MMBasic Help |
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Martin H. Guru Joined: 04/06/2022 Location: GermanyPosts: 892 |
there is no Print at this line in the Code If (mvolt > 220) And (mvolt < 3100) Then 'Read letter if no buttons pressed 'no comment |
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| phil99 Guru Joined: 11/02/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1781 |
If I understood Jim, there is an invisible character acting as a space. MMEdit queries it, replacing it with "?" which MMBasic reads as PRINT. |
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| rea23 Newbie Joined: 16/09/2022 Location: SwitzerlandPosts: 26 |
That is exactly what happened. As I see now, should have mentioned that with the "?". |
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